U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is considering pulling the COVID-19 vaccine from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) list of recommended vaccines for children, two people familiar with the situation told Politico.
Children’s Health Defense (CHD) CEO Mary Holland said she was “thrilled” with the news.
“CHD challenged the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s [FDA] decision to make these shots available to children at all. The science does not show their safety or effectiveness,” Holland said.
“Indeed, children have died, developed myocarditis, paralysis and all manner of other harms from these shots,” she added. “CHD believes this is the start of what needs to be a thorough reassessment of the CDC’s childhood vaccine recommendations.”
Attorney Ray Flores, senior outside counsel for CHD, agreed. He said removing COVID-19 shots is “the obvious place to start” if the CDC is going to modify its childhood immunization schedule.
